Partner of the First Light Festival, HighTide is a theatre company and charity based in East Anglia that has an unparalleled twelve-year history of successfully launching the careers of emerging British playwrights.

Part of their Lighthouse Programme, HighTide's 'Love In The Time of Corona' monologues have been released online! Starting with ‘The Perfect Bottle to Piss in’ by Debris Stevenson...

Join our partner Natural History Museum, London and their panel of global scientific experts as they discuss the importance of protecting the variety and volume of life on earth as we face a planetary emergecy... Live at 6pm!

Feeling creative? Are you a budding designer or artist? Then enter our design competition!

We want you to to create a design for an original and inventive banner that celebrates the First Light Festival experience. This is completely open to your interpretation and you may use any medium you wish for your design.

The winning banners selected by our judges will be produced and put on display as part of the 2021 festival!

First Light Festival is a 24-hour celebration of place, culture, art and creativity over midsummer’s weekend. Taking place on a beautiful beach in the UK’s most easterly town, Lowestoft, the festival explores our relationship with the sea, sun, moon, stars and tides and the importance of looking...